JPEG2000 Image Compression Fundamentals and Practices (Includes One CD-ROM)

Author: Taubman et al. (USA), translated by Wei Jiangli and Bai Zhengyao
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: JPEG2000 is the new version of the international standard developed by the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG). The original JPEG image compression standard has been widely applied in various fields, including the Internet, digital cameras, printers, and scanners. Image compression plays a core role in modern multimedia communication, and compressed images are proven to represent the dominant resource in today's Internet traffic. In many of its application areas, JPEG2000 can serve as the successor to JPEG. Its emergence is primarily driven by the need for compressed image representation that provides the increasing features required by modern applications while also offering superior compression performance. This book is divided into four parts to meet the needs of different readers. Part 1 provides comprehensive and new background knowledge on the fundamentals of image compression. Part 2 includes a complete description of the JPEG2000 standard. Parts 1 and 2 complement each other, explaining and illustrating the JPEG2000 standard and modern image compression techniques. Part 3 focuses on the implementation and development of the JPEG2000 standard, including guidelines, recommendations, and analyses for application-oriented software and hardware. Part 4 discusses related JPEG and JPEG-LS standards and supplements some application examples that were introduced in earlier parts but are not included in the JPEG2000 standard. This book can serve as a textbook for senior undergraduate or graduate-level courses on image compression. It is also a valuable reference for professional engineers and scholars in fields such as communication, image processing, signal processing, information theory, and multimedia. Additionally, it is suitable for engineers and technicians working on multimedia, Internet, and medical imaging software and hardware solutions.